{"id":36491,"date":"2022-07-05T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36491"},"modified":"2022-07-05T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:47:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/05\/word-of-the-day-805\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Extradosed bridge<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An\u00a0<b>extradosed bridge<\/b>\u00a0employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed\u00a0<a title=\"Box girder bridge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Box_girder_bridge\">box girder bridge<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a title=\"Cable-stayed bridge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cable-stayed_bridge\">cable-stayed bridge<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Benjumea_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extradosed_bridge#cite_note-Benjumea-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Ikeda_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extradosed_bridge#cite_note-Ikeda-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup class=\"reference nowrap\"><span title=\"Page \/ location: 85\">:\u200a85\u200a<\/span><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Benaim2007_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extradosed_bridge#cite_note-Benaim2007-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The name comes from the word\u00a0<i><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:extrados\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/extrados\">extrados<\/a><\/i>, the exterior or upper curve of an arch, and refers to how the &#8220;stay cables&#8221; on an extradosed bridge are not considered as such in the design, but are instead treated as external\u00a0<a title=\"Prestressed concrete\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prestressed_concrete\">prestressing tendons<\/a>\u00a0deviating upward from the deck. In this concept, they remain part of (and define the upper limit of) the main bridge\u00a0<a title=\"Superstructure\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superstructure\">superstructure<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extradosed_bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Total gibberish to me. From a friend&#8217;s <em><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/em> post, so I&#8217;ll omit the link and just quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A precast extradosed bridge, St. Croix Crossing is a hybrid of a concrete box girder structure and a cable-stayed structure. The extradosed design minimized environmental impacts by allowing tower heights to be below bluffs, while reducing the number of piers in the river. Minimizing environmental impact is important on any construction project, but especially so in this beautiful corridor which is protected by the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extradosed bridge: An\u00a0extradosed bridge\u00a0employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed\u00a0box girder bridge\u00a0and a\u00a0cable-stayed bridge.[1][2]:\u200a85\u200a[3]\u00a0The name comes from the word\u00a0extrados, the exterior or upper curve of an arch, and refers to how the &#8220;stay cables&#8221; on an extradosed bridge are not considered as such in the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/05\/word-of-the-day-805\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36492,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}